The cotyli are separated by a smooth ridge, that is highest at its
posterior termination. The tuberosity is high and massive, with a
wide depression on its top for the reception of the ligament of the
patella; the sides are deeply pitted by venous foramina. A section of
the shaft at the lower part of the tuberosity would be subtriangular;
while below it becomes more cylindrical, as it becomes smaller,
reaching its shortest diameter about three fifths down the shaft.
Below this it expands and forms the large subcircular distal end.
The articular face is concave, with a slight, smooth ridge running
fore-and-aft on its internal side. The malleolus is broad and low.
The _fibula_ is distinct, but very slender; its proximal end has a
small circular face, which articulates with the tibia on a facet
developed on the bottom of a projection of the tuberosity; the distal
end is much flattened, but enters into the ankle-joint.
_Measurements of the Tibia._
M.
Transverse diameter of proximal articulation ·158
Longitudinal diameter of proximal articulation ·123
Smallest circumference of shaft ·16
Greatest distal circumference above the articular face ·308
Diameter of distal articulation longitudinally ·082
Diameter of distal articulation transversely ·130
Width of tuberosity below pit for ligament of the
patella ·075
Uintatherium princeps, _sp. nov._
Established on several portions of the head, vertebral column, and
the limbs.
This species may readily be distinguished from the last by its
larger size, the broad nasals with small tuberosities, the stronger
zygomatic arches, and the sub-cylindrical centra of the dorsal
vertebræ.
The _nasals_ are broad and flat for some distance behind the
tuberosities. Although the animal was not adult, the nasal suture
is almost obliterated, and is visible only on the inferior surface;
in this respect it is very different from the _U. leidianum_, in
which the suture persists throughout life; as is shown by the type
specimen, which was past maturity. The tuberosities of _U. princeps_
are lower, broader, and more everted than in the preceding species;
are not divided by a groove, but united together by a low rounded
ridge, to which the surface of the nasals gradually rises from
behind. The portion of the bones anterior is short, stout, and
projects horizontally.
The _median_, or _maxillary_, _projections_ are apparently short and
everted; they are somewhat compressed antero-posteriorly, and enlarge
rapidly downwards. They are transversely oval in section.
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